I’ve been using CSSEdit for the last couple of months and it’s sharply increased my productivity when working with style sheets. Today MacRabbit released version 2.0 (of course) and it is jaw-droppingly good, TextMate good.

There are five major new features but my favorite so far is ‘Overridding’ which as the name suggests give you the ability to override live website styles. As it can overide live sites you can do away with the edit>save>refresh>test method when making style sheet changes on a dynamic site. Changes can be previewed without even saving the style sheet. In the screen shot below I’m changing the a:link color of the blog with the color wheel.

Overriding extracts the style sheets from the live site so all you rip-off artists can extract style sheets even faster than before! :P

Another cool new feature is ‘X-ray’ which let’s you select page elements such as a divs margin and padding. The page elements are listed hierarchically (html>body>div#container>div#sidebar>div#links) so you can easily select a parent object.

A new feature I know I’ll be using a lot is ‘Milestones’ which are similar to Photoshop’s history and layer comps, you can set a milestone and then proceed down different roads without fear of losing your original style if you make a mess of things.

Version 2.0 is much snappier than the old version and it looks great too, it makes use of newer Apple interface elements you’d see in the latest iTunes and the Pro Applications.

If you do web design/development on a Windows box, and TextMate wasn’t enough of a reason to dump your fugly PC and even worse OS, you’d be crazy not to switch after using CSSEdit.